how to live with your parents for the rest of your life

How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life has a catchy title and shades of Ben and Kate to it (single mom with long blonde hair), but that's kinda where the fun peters out, unfortunately. It's not that there aren't any laughs in the show about Sarah Chalke retreating home after a divorce—it's that I totally don't buy the people involved in them. The characters are about as believable and developed as the ones in the puppet shows I used to put on in the public library (for an audience of zero). Brad Garrett is Raymond-levels likable with his earring, but that's also partially because he's standing next to Elizabeth Perkins, whose character is so unlikable. The nicest thing I can say about her character is that her curls are flawless. The show bangs us over the head with her sexual penchants—I'm talking unprovoked tutorials on how to use jelly in the bedroom. All that is fine, but you stop relating once cool-grandma becomes too cool for grandkid time. "Kids are boring," she says when Sarah Chalke's character begs her to babysit (and of the little girls' meds? "These don't look like any fun at all"). read more